Can someone help me with these 2 math problems?

[Born2BAnurse]

1. Digoxin(lanoxin) 0.125mg is ordered. On hand is Lanoxin 0.5mg/ml howm many Milliliters will be given? Please I need help are al these problems are suppose to be V/T= D

2. Mrs. B is to give her child 6ml of a liquid medication.Her only measuring toll in her apartment is a teaspoon. How many teaspoon of medication should she give?

Can someone go on chat with me to do some one on one tutoring..

[merla lewis]

my daughter will be a pre-nursing student this fall 2004 and I was surfing the

net on nursing financial aid sites and ran into this site. I am a retired pharmacist due to having parkinsons. I practiced hospital pharmacy for 8 yrs and then went into retail pharmacy after the birth of my 2nd child. I retired in 1997 due to complications with parkinsons.

Here is how to solve the digoxin dosage:

0.5mg = 0.125mg

1ml xmls

Cross multiply and solve for x: 0.5X = 0.125

X = 0.125

0.5

X = 0.25mls

to check answer all you do is ask yourself what do I have? I have 0.5mg per 1ml so if I withdraw out 0.25mls your answer is 0.25mls X 0.5mg = 0.125mg

[Born2BAnurse]

will I ever catch on to these math problems? I feel soo lost!!

[CarVsTree]

It seems you've got enough info for the first problem. I think the key to the second problem is "the only tool she has is a teaspoon." Since she has no way of measuring the .2ml, she should just give 1 tsp. That would be the safest answer to problem 2.